The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together. archive.is/8VqQJ [this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]

Vivian Maier NYC, 1953

© Sean Purcell - Hello there.

Tutto l'universo fiorisce in un tempo senza catene, fuori dal pianto. #UnPoeticoSentire Clessidra #poesia 🎨Eugene Laermans

La clessidra sta lì muta, un sospiro, un battito, un addio, difendo i granelli, sabbia tra le dita, dal vento inclemente che li vuole rapire; li serbo nel pugno, segreto di vita, finché il tempo non scenda, lieve a coprire #UnPoeticoSentire Clessidra #poesia #BricioleDiPensieri

1/2 According to Flemish folktales, Die Gnydige was a witch who could shapeshift into a cat. The villagers grew tired of her gatherings to which hundreds of cats came, and burned down her den. The felines walked unharmed through the flames and chased the men away. #WyrdWednesday

Twig with Two Pears, n.d., by #DorotheaStormKreps (Dutch, 1734-72), who died #otd, Nov 5. Held by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, www.boijmans.nl/en/collectio... #hernaturalhistory #artherstory #womenartists

fine thread ✨

At the races, 1875 #impressionism #edouardmanet

Glaschu

from FB: I want to tell you about a girl who only eats plants. You probably have not heard of herbivore.

Girl reading by candlelight while leaning on a table Guido Reni, undated (b. 4 Nov 1575 - d. 18 Aug 1642 Bologna) Albertina, Vienna

Chang'e Flying to the Moon, Ren Shuai Ying, 1955.

Being super-rich is not a good indicator of what you’ve put in, it’s a measure of what you’ve taken out.

Dachshund Ryszard Kaja

Sunrise, Yuri Dmitrievich Vasendin 2022

selfie (mp4)

Lingrou Xie, Thorns (oil on canvas, 2024)

Sheila Kruger (collage)

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Head of a dog in profile, by Annibale Carracci, who was born #otd 3 Nov 1560 in Bologna (British Museum)

So, John and I worked on this book forever and ever. Calling it a labor of love is a bit cliché. A labor of obsession? Of adoration? The Penguin Book of the International Short Story comes out on April 7, 2026 (from @penguinpress.bsky.social, of course). Just check out the stories in the book . . .

Portrait of Andrea Quaratesi (1512-1585), "a young Florentine noble whose friendship with Michelangelo, from whom he took drawing classes, is documented in letters. Michelangelo undertook portraits unwillingly, probably only at the subject's insistence". (British Museum)

'The Dusk Hour' by contemporary photographer Natalia Drepina #WomensArt

For #smallpoemsunday here's one of my own. Cheers to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social and small poems.

Hat tip to Tom & his prompt to showcase the beauty in brevity. #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Caroline Bird #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Some days "progress" is a just base coat or one good line of text. It's prep for what's to come, when it comes. Go easy on yourself.

Beatrice Orchard Carter (1889-1939) was a South African botanical illustrator. She produced ophthalmic drawings for an oculist, D. J. Wood. She was appointed as an artist at the Bolus Herbarium in Cape Town in 1926. Her early death left unfinished much of the artwork she had begun. #WomensArt

The big thing I did this year and haven't been able to say much about up until now is that I was SOMEHOW asked to illustrate the new Folio Society edition of A Christmas Carol, introduced by Simon Callow. Bit of a dream job. www.foliosociety.com/uk/a-christm...

Grand Egyptian Museum: More than $1 billion and two decades later, an architectural vision comes to life https://www.byteseu.com/1502795/ When Róisín Heneghan received a phone call 22 years ago announcing that her four-person architecture firm had been chosen to design one of the world’s …

“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”

This is a great read. My three favourite Redford films are Jeremiah Johnson, Three Days of the Condor and Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. Plus, Reagan’s use of the CIA to fight proxy wars was a central theme of The Americans, one of my all time favourite series open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr...

🎞️ Vidéo - L'exposition «Sargent. Éblouir Paris» présentée par ses commissaires. 👉 bit.ly/VisiteExpoSargent Dans les salles du musée, Caroline Corbeau-Parsons et Paul Perrin vous dévoilent le parcours de l'exposition, les choix muséographiques et scientifiques de son montage.

Around this time yesterday I stopped at St. Katharine’s Chapel in Limehouse to check out their 14th century misericords. Thankfully it was otherwise empty of visitors, I had to lie flat on my back and shimmy underneath a big chair to photograph the hidden demon and its brides in the fourth image...

a perfect Sunday post (Oor Wullie and The Broons besides) via Lady Chatterley's Lover my goodness me!

Theodorus van Hoytema November, 1907

'I am nothing but a cube of sugar: I know that I melt in the heat, And I know to disappear. The moment that you come is when I leave.' You can watch Rosalia's new single, a collaboration with Icelandic composer Daníel Bjarnason and the LSO, on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=htQB...

#ArtDD2025 Avocet Today I've been trying to see how little paint I can put on paper but still produce a bird😀. Here's one version. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social

A Year for Dutch & Flemish Women Artists artherstory.net/a-year-for-d... The post surveys 12 months of new exhibitions, books, acquisitions & auction appearances, all to do with early modern Dutch & Flemish women artists! Pic'd: Vanitas Still Life, Maria van Oosterwyck, @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Just wanted to share my poem 'Dancing with Mercutio in Klute Nightclub', published in the latest issue of @poetrywales.bsky.social 💙

Peter Watkins has died - perhaps the least-appreciated great British filmmaker (and you sense he wouldn't have wanted it any other way). www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Woman at Her Toilette, 1900 #impressionism #edgardegas

new, today 🍂

'When I was dead, my spirit turned To seek the much-frequented house: I passed the door, and saw my friends Feasting beneath green orange boughs' -Christina Rossetti Tomorrow #BookWormSat will explore death and the dead in literature. Do join us! 🖤 Reposts will be slower than usual.

Where the wild things are - a Pine Marten in a ravine on the west coast of Scotland. #pinemarten Well worth a listen: "Sometimes a wild god comes to the table. He is awkward and does not know the ways Of porcelain, of fork and mustard and silver" Tom Hirons soundcloud.com/tomhirons/so...

An Unknown Young Man 1590-1593 Nicholas Hilliard This piece is unique among Hilliard's miniatures, because the sitter is placed against a black background. (Victoria & Albert Museum)